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I'm bored on a train and want some brain teasers - things like the "While on my way to St Ives" and "A cowboy rides into town on Friday", rather than maths ones.
What have you got?
A bear leaves its lair and travels south. It finds an old abandoned hut, which it ransacks but doesn't find any food. It then travels east for an hour to its favourite resting stop and relaxes there for the afternoon. It then travels north for an hour and gets back to its lair before dark. What tyres for a pointless wandering bear?
Man lives in a tower block, goes out to the lift, waits for it to arrive, gets in at his floor (12), goes to the ground floor, gets out and goes about his day.
On returning, presses the lift button, waits, gets in when the doors open, presses for floor 9, gets out, walks upto the 12 th floor and goes into his flat.
Why?
Poor people have it. Rich people need it. If you eat it you die. What is it?
I’m tall when I’m young and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?
Mary’s father has 5 daughters – Nana, Nene, Nini, Nono. What is the fifth daughters name?
What travels around the world but stays in the corner?
Tower block: it's either he's a short arse or something more subtle
Mary’s father has 5 daughters – Nana, Nene, Nini, Nono. What is the fifth daughters name?
Sandra?
Just as wrong a Nunu, which a lot people say.Sandra?
Tower block: it's either he's a short arse or something more subtle
Yep, short arse
A bike is on a set of rollers angled upwards. Do you use the same power as riding up a hill at the same angle...
Edit : bollocks, we're not allowed maths ones 🙁
Fith daughter is mary.....
its a wandering polar bear
im tall when im young...... candle?
Travelling the world - an umbrella?
A bomber in flight opens the bomb bay doors, but the bombs do not fall. Why?
(Nothing wrong with the mechanism and there are bombs)
no. Smaller than thatan umbrella?
What travels around the world but stays in the corner?
It's certainly not a baby.
Nobody puts Baby in a corner.
stamp
bomber is flying upside down
I'm riddled as to why this is in the bike forum
Mary’s father has 5 daughters – Nana, Nene, Nini, Nono. What is the fifth daughters name?
Isnt that the lyrics to Saturday night by Wigfield?
the daughters one is only answerable if you assume Mary is a girl
There were three men in a boat. They had four cigarettes but no lighter. How did they manage to smoke?
DO they have any matches with them ?
they threw one cigarette out of the boat, the boat was then a cigarette lighter, and they used that?
Gold star for Lester
why thank you, its taken 63 years to get my first gold star,
its the
sort of riddle i would make up and get slagged off by my mates 🙂
i woke up this morning and i had lots of gold colour small wheat disks on me, why?
actually its not a riddle its a bad joke, the answer was...... ebola cornflakes
There are 3 cups upside down on a table
Hidden under 1 cup is a £20 note
You take a cup but don’t look underneath
One of the remaining cups is removed at random
You are given the option to either stick with your first choice or to switch cups
Should you make the switch?
Switch though i dont understand the maths I do know the answer 😳
its the sort of riddle i would make up and get slagged off by my mates
I nicked it from a Fingathing album
Switch though i dont understand the maths I do know the answer
Boo...bad form
The answer requires explanation
What have I got in my pocket?
Dirty boy
on the cups you had a one in three on the first selection and a 50/50 on the switch? (EDIT Nah, that's bollox)
Poor people have it- nothing
What have I got in my pocket- get away from me you pervert
If you decide to switch cups the only way you can lose is if you picked the winning cup with your initial selection. The odds of this are 1/3 so the odds of winning if you make the switch are 1–1/3 = 2/3. So your odds improve from 1/3 to 2/3.
If you decide to switch cups the only way you can lose is if you picked the winning cup with your initial selection. The odds of this are 1/3 so the odds of winning if you make the switch are 1–1/3 = 2/3. So your odds improve from 1/3 to 2/3.
Huh? What if the winning cup was the one removed?
only if you assume that 'removed at random' didn't mean it could have the £20 in it surely
Edit: Beaten to it
Doh! said the question wrong - well spotted
That should have said....
"One of the remaining empty cups is removed"
Apologies 😳 😳 😳
the cup one is the same a the Monty Hall problem - see wiki/youtube
What Regie said, there's always a 1/2 chance once one of the incorrect ones has been removed, which is better than the 1/3 you had when you made the first decision.
In ndthornton's version you should stick, as you had a 1in3 chance, but if you swap it's I think 2 in 9 (might be 1 in 9).
I make it if you swap you have 2/3 chance, versus 1/3 if you stick.
Man and Son in a car accident, father dies son is rushed to hospital.
Upon entering the operating theatre the surgeon exclaims "that's my son"
It's the mother gypsumfantastic 🙂
Pertinent to STW....
Almost everyone needs it, asks for it, gives it, but almost nobody takes it. What is it?
advice 🙂
It's the mother gypsumfantastic
Top marks (or you're reading the same book as I am)
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What's the answer to the tower block riddle?